Stories from Wednesday, November 7, 2012

BERRYVILLE -- Berryville Mayor Tim McKinney will begin negotiating a waste water treatment contract in the next week with the Fayetteville-based firm CH2M Hill. The mayor told City Council members the news at a meeting Tuesday night. Details of the potential contract remain to be negotiated. However, this much is certain: The mayor said the city was interested in handing over the entire management of the plant to the firm...

CARROLL COUNTY -- Preliminary results of the 2012 elections have arrived. Overall, 10,276 voters -- or 74.39 percent of those registered in the county - turned out to polls this year to cast their ballots -- a slightly greater ratio than the 72.99 percent who participated in the 2008 presidential election...

CARROLL COUNTY -- County Judge Sam Barr's decision to allow the Office of Emergency Management to occupy a building at the county airport could cost taxpayers more than a million dollars if the situation is not corrected, airport officials said. For more than two years, OEM has stored equipment, rent free, at the facility. ...